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Permalink Reply by Robbiejuve on February 29, 2012 at 8:39am

I agree with your comments and King to SHB is on my commute, the lights are a joke. I do stop at each one most afternoons, simply because I am not in a rush to get home 5 mins earlier but I do understand people running those particular lights. In the mornings I always switch to the car lane on Kent St after the SHB as the first lights you come to are almost always red for bicycles but green for cars.

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Permalink Reply by Ben on February 29, 2012 at 8:40am

Agreed, but I think the intersection of Murray St and Pyrmont Bridge Rd is particularly bad, as mostly the bike lanterns don't change when the pedestrian light changes. I think this intersection has a problem due to the bike sensor not being triggered.

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Permalink Reply by Llewster on February 29, 2012 at 9:12am

Turning left around the corner on a red is another quirk - i mean at the King St - Kent St intersection - so Kent St cyclists going south cant turn left when the King St when they have a red.  There is nothing in the way of the cyclist turning left. 

Here is a story in Copenhagenize about police booking right turning cyclists (running a red) - or cutting a corner riding on a the footpath.  http://www.copenhagenize.com/2012/02/police-tickets-no-new-is-big-n... - I do like the quote from this -

Anette Jerup Jørgensen is a researcher at Danish Cyclists Federation and she said in an article in a Danish newspaper today that, "What happens in our bicycle culture is that there is a pragmatic interpretation of the rules. People think that as long as they don't bother others, they can bend the rules here and there."

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